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Newsmakers for March 2010
Nonprofits Last year around this time, two drug abuse prevention groups were heralding their looming merger as a perfect union. The National...
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A Look Back at the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Urban Institute & Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) This series of articles reflect the effects and aftermath of...
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What Are the Important Differences Among Kinship Foster Families?
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This study looked at family structure and household composition of families providing kinship care,...
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Diploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers
Child Trends This Child Trends report, based on recently released data from a national survey, addresses whether teen mothers go on...
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Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, established in 1999 by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
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College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...
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Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study
University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...
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If Parents Don’t Speak English Well, Will Their Kids Get Locked Up?
Vera Institute of Justice Youth in the juvenile justice system with limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents have a higher chance of being prosecuted and...
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Facing Our Future: Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Enforcement
Urban Institute While millions of illegal immigrants continue to be a focus of attention and debate in the United States, the...
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Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Young Adolescents
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine This new federally funded study released last month provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only...
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The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families
National Council of La Raza & Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina (UNC) This report examines the...
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Kids Count Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation This state-by-state database tracking the health and well-being of U.S. children and their families has been updated...
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What One YO Achieved, and How It (Sort of) Continues
Not long after Phoenix Youth and Family Services in the Arkansas Delta started providing services to young people under the Youth...
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California’s Gambit Pays Off for Kinship Care
A threat by California to do an end-run around federal regulations that restricted funding for guardianship programs – even though the threat...
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CASA, Join Together Split
Note: This story has been updated since its original posting. Last year’s much-heralded merger of the National Center on Addiction and Substance...
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Bill Treanor to Retire, New Publisher Named
Washington, D.C.—Prize-winning investigative journalist Sara Fritz will become publisher of Youth Today in April, succeeding co-founder and Publisher Bill Treanor, the news...
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Tips for Working with Hard-to-Serve Youths Outlined in Labor Department Memo
The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA) has released a new guidance for states, workforce investment boards and local...
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Annie E. Casey Foundation Names New CEO
Patrick T. McCarthy will succeed the retiring Douglas Nelson as president and CEO of the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, the foundation’s...
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CNCS Unveils Guidelines for Social Innovation Grants
Long-awaited funding guidelines for the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund were announced Tuesday by the Corporation for National and Community Service...
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Youth Agencies among Winners of Recovery Act-Funded Health Care Training Grants
Several youth-serving agencies will share in $225 million worth of “health care and high growth” training grants the U.S. Department of Labor...
